Jürgen Klinsmann
Juergen Klinsmann currently manages Bayern Munich, and before that has managed the German national side for their 2006 World Cup campaign (qualifying to 3rd spot playoff win). He’s a modern-methods manager who mixes an aggressive, tactical on-field approach with highly specialised off-field training and expert sports psychology.
Jürgen Klinsmann trying too hard to Europeanize U.S. team
Thursday was the five-month anniversary of Jürgen Klinsmann’s appointment as head coach of the United States men’s national team. In that short time, he has presided over seven games and has a paltry 2-1-4 record. He has also instituted some controversial player-selection policies, in some instances preferring European-born players to Americans. This has led to…
Jurgen Klinsmann opens U.S. career in entertaining fashion
On Wednesday night, the U.S. National Team ushered in the Jurgen Klinsmann era with a 1-1 tie against Mexico in Philadelphia. The new U.S. coach spent most of the evening with a smile on his face, and although the first half of his debut was less than promising, the second half provided plenty of reason…
Klinsmann in, Bradley out as US National Coach
In a coup d’état so swift it could represent the final guillotine strike in a pepole’s revolution, Bob Bradley has been replaced as manager of the United States Mens’ Soccer team by Jürgen Klinsmann. It shares many of the same characteristics as a popular uprising – a ruthless governer ousted for a friendlier man of…
Klinsmann: USSF wouldn’t give me 100% control of USMNT
Jürgen Klinsmann said that the US Soccer Federation USSF would not put his authority in writing even though they had verbally agreed with him to take over the US National Team as head coach. Ultimately Sunil Gulati chose to rehire Bob Bradley (who’s done a fine job so far, it has to be said) for…
Former US coach criticizes the lack of support for Bradley
Bruce Arena, the former USMNT coach from 1998 to 2006, recently criticized the US Soccer chiefs for giving adequate support to the current head coach Bob Bradley. Although, the federation has extended Bradley’s contract until 2014. Despite the fans wanting to see a foreign coach and despite the fact that Jurgen Klinsmann’s name was up…
Joachim Low deserves all the credit for Germany’s wonderful World Cup adventure
What Joachim Low has done in four years since taking over the reins of one of the biggest jobs in world football is nothing short of wonderful.The German head coach succeeded a legend of the game Jurgen Klinsmann after the 2006 FIFA World Cup where they narrowly missed out on reaching the final in their…
The Experiments Are Over: Bayern Munich Sack Klinsmann
Bayern Munich’s season has been a difficult one (and not just in the league) and after losing at home to Schalke hastened the inevitable. Jürgen Klinsmann has been sacked after a frank meeting with club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, general manager Uli Hoeness and director Karl Hopfner today. Bayern will be managed by Jupp Heynckes for…
Soccerlens Podcast – The Bundesliga, Klinsmann and sex at the Bernabeu!
On the eighth episode of the Soccerlens Podcast, Stephen Darwin is joined by the Guardian’s German expert and native Bavarian Raphael Honigstein to discuss German football and the Bundesliga. The show will be looking specifically at the worst ever Autumn Champions, German WAGS, Jurgen Klinsmann and sex at the Bernabeu (although unrelated might we hastily add!)
Klinsmann: Staying Alive
Even the highest dose of “Aspirin” from pharmaceutical giants Bayer AG will do little to “Aleve” the migraines of Bayern Munich. What a difference a week makes. It was all bear hugs and high fives after Bayern Munich trashed Sporting Lisbon by five un-replied goals in midweek UEFA Champions league play. However, the euphoria was…
Football fork – January 2007 – Liverpool bought by the DIC group
About ten years ago Nick Hancock co-wrote a book called What Didn’t Happen Next, which was an amusing look at the butterfly effect in football and those little changes which might have rewritten the annals of football. What if Southgate had scored his penalty at Euro 1996? What if Gordon Banks hadn’t had food poisoning…
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